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Leuwenhoek

noun
1.
Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723).  Synonyms: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Anton van Leuwenhoek, Leeuwenhoek.






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... minute anatomy that the rise of histology to the rank of an independent science may be said to date from this period. Hitherto, ever since the discovery of magnifying-glasses, there had been here and there a man, such as Leuwenhoek or Malpighi, gifted with exceptional vision, and perhaps unusually happy in his conjectures, who made important contributions to the knowledge of the minute structure of organic tissues; but now of a sudden ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams



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